Microservices
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 48 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3,741 6,290 13,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.81% 6.00% 8.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 6.28% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,773 3,854 5,450
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,821 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +3.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -21 2,935 £65,000 -18.75% 727
UK excluding London +8 2,613 £62,500 -7.41% 448
Work from Home -6 1,924 £62,500 -16.67% 653
London -32 1,032 £82,500 -2.94% 323
Scotland -12 630 £65,000 -6.40% 34
South East -6 598 £60,000 -7.69% 101
North of England +21 570 £62,500 -7.41% 138
South West +14 297 £60,500 -10.37% 48
Midlands +10 285 £60,000 -7.69% 71
North West -10 273 £65,000 - 76
Yorkshire +67 225 £61,206 -12.56% 47
West Midlands +49 186 £65,000 +4.84% 29
East of England -12 147 £65,000 -10.34% 37
East Midlands -30 99 £55,000 -18.52% 42
North East +21 72 £61,206 -12.56% 17
Wales -6 46 £52,500 -12.50% 15
Northern Ireland +15 38 £65,000 +37.57% 14
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 188 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 96 (2.57%) FileNet
3 69 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (1.47%) Apache
5 54 (1.44%) Confluence
6 42 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 21 (0.56%) GemFire
8 19 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 18 (0.48%) CMS
10 17 (0.45%) nginx
11 12 (0.32%) JBoss
11 12 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
11 12 (0.32%) Umbraco
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
13 9 (0.24%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.21%) Apache Pig
15 6 (0.16%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.16%) Kentico
15 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 6 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.27%) Simulink
3 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.053%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.027%) Sketch
5 1 (0.027%) UXPin
5 1 (0.027%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 33 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.11%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.080%) Magento
4 3 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.027%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.027%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,763 (47.13%) Azure
2 1,696 (45.34%) AWS
3 428 (11.44%) Serverless
4 288 (7.70%) GCP
5 269 (7.19%) SaaS
6 256 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
7 190 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
8 161 (4.30%) Amazon S3
9 157 (4.20%) GitHub
10 153 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
11 118 (3.15%) PaaS
12 110 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
13 99 (2.65%) IaaS
14 90 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 75 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
16 58 (1.55%) Amazon SQS
17 55 (1.47%) Power Platform
18 51 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
19 50 (1.34%) OpenShift
20 47 (1.26%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (2.25%) Internet
2 54 (1.44%) DNS
3 53 (1.42%) HTTP
4 44 (1.18%) Firewall
5 33 (0.88%) AMQP
6 16 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
6 16 (0.43%) MQTT
6 16 (0.43%) Network Security
7 14 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.16%) VPN
9 5 (0.13%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.13%) DHCP
9 5 (0.13%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.13%) WAN
10 4 (0.11%) Wireless
11 3 (0.080%) 4G
11 3 (0.080%) 5G
11 3 (0.080%) GPRS
11 3 (0.080%) SMS
11 3 (0.080%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 828 (22.13%) SQL Server
2 521 (13.93%) NoSQL
3 420 (11.23%) MongoDB
4 385 (10.29%) Elasticsearch
5 260 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
6 241 (6.44%) Relational Database
7 214 (5.72%) MySQL
8 139 (3.72%) Apache Cassandra
8 139 (3.72%) Big Data
9 110 (2.94%) Hadoop
10 98 (2.62%) Redis
11 87 (2.33%) Apache Hive
12 72 (1.92%) HBase
13 66 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
13 66 (1.76%) RDBMS
14 64 (1.71%) DynamoDB
15 46 (1.23%) Oracle Database
16 36 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
17 32 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
17 32 (0.86%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 517 (13.82%) Git
2 376 (10.05%) Jenkins
3 183 (4.89%) JUnit
4 120 (3.21%) JIRA
5 112 (2.99%) GitLab
6 80 (2.14%) Maven
7 72 (1.92%) Jasmine
8 66 (1.76%) Selenium
9 65 (1.74%) Mockito
10 64 (1.71%) Cucumber
11 59 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 47 (1.26%) Visual Studio
13 46 (1.23%) Cypress.io
14 45 (1.20%) JMeter
15 44 (1.18%) SonarQube
16 40 (1.07%) NUnit
17 36 (0.96%) JDeveloper
18 29 (0.78%) Jaeger
18 29 (0.78%) TeamCity
19 28 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 1,120 (29.94%) Finance
2 592 (15.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 543 (14.51%) Social Skills
4 531 (14.19%) Law
5 313 (8.37%) Banking
6 311 (8.31%) Marketing
7 229 (6.12%) Legal
8 210 (5.61%) Public Sector
9 169 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
10 142 (3.80%) Retail
11 108 (2.89%) Financial Institution
12 81 (2.17%) Investment Banking
13 68 (1.82%) Games
14 51 (1.36%) Aerospace
15 42 (1.12%) Tech for Good
16 37 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 36 (0.96%) Front Office
18 32 (0.86%) Retail Banking
19 31 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
20 30 (0.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,730 (46.24%) Developer
2 875 (23.39%) Software Engineer
3 847 (22.64%) .NET Developer
4 712 (19.03%) Senior
5 507 (13.55%) Architect
6 477 (12.75%) Lead
7 399 (10.67%) Java Engineer
8 326 (8.71%) C# Developer
9 324 (8.66%) Java Software Engineer
10 321 (8.58%) Senior Developer
11 300 (8.02%) Java Developer
12 295 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
13 271 (7.24%) C# .NET Developer
14 219 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 173 (4.62%) Full Stack Engineer
15 173 (4.62%) Software Developer
16 143 (3.82%) Lead Software Engineer
17 142 (3.80%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 127 (3.39%) Full Stack Developer
19 119 (3.18%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,337 (35.74%) .NET
2 1,131 (30.23%) AngularJS
3 933 (24.94%) React
4 770 (20.58%) .NET Core
5 765 (20.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 714 (19.09%) ASP.NET
7 698 (18.66%) Spring
8 631 (16.87%) Node.js
9 593 (15.85%) .NET Framework
10 563 (15.05%) RESTful
11 548 (14.65%) Kafka
12 547 (14.62%) Spring Boot
13 543 (14.51%) Entity Framework
14 531 (14.19%) ASP.NET MVC
15 424 (11.33%) HTML
16 419 (11.20%) Vue
17 380 (10.16%) REST
18 277 (7.40%) CSS
19 209 (5.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 196 (5.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 435 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 190 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 184 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (4.89%) Algorithms
5 162 (4.33%) Public Cloud
6 101 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 97 (2.59%) Mobile App
8 88 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 81 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 71 (1.90%) Client/Server
11 60 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 56 (1.50%) IoT
13 55 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
13 55 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 52 (1.39%) Social Media
14 52 (1.39%) Social Network
15 43 (1.15%) Blockchain
16 40 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 39 (1.04%) iPhone
18 36 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 201 (5.37%) Linux
2 113 (3.02%) Unix
3 86 (2.30%) Android
4 85 (2.27%) Windows
5 39 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 34 (0.91%) CentOS
9 24 (0.64%) Debian
10 18 (0.48%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.11%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.080%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.053%) VMS
14 1 (0.027%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,272 (60.73%) Agile
2 1,267 (33.87%) Software Engineering
3 1,212 (32.40%) Full Stack Development
4 1,051 (28.09%) CI/CD
5 900 (24.06%) DevOps
6 757 (20.24%) TDD
7 688 (18.39%) SDLC
8 650 (17.38%) MVC
9 616 (16.47%) Scrum
10 517 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
11 449 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 449 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 443 (11.84%) Containerisation
13 439 (11.73%) BDD
14 437 (11.68%) Machine Learning
15 427 (11.41%) Kanban
16 407 (10.88%) Test Automation
17 367 (9.81%) Operational Stability
18 359 (9.60%) Design Patterns
19 344 (9.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,453 (38.84%) Java
2 1,332 (35.61%) C#
3 1,225 (32.75%) JavaScript
4 799 (21.36%) SQL
5 683 (18.26%) Python
6 678 (18.12%) TypeScript
7 157 (4.20%) Go
8 82 (2.19%) PHP
9 80 (2.14%) Ruby
10 79 (2.11%) Bash
11 72 (1.92%) Kotlin
12 71 (1.90%) PL/SQL
13 59 (1.58%) PowerShell
14 58 (1.55%) C++
15 50 (1.34%) Perl
16 44 (1.18%) C
17 37 (0.99%) T-SQL
18 36 (0.96%) Scala
19 33 (0.88%) Shell Script
20 28 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 337 (9.01%) Degree
2 215 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 195 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 169 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 97 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 75 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 61 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 49 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 48 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 31 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 18 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
13 18 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.29%) DBS Check
16 10 (0.27%) PhD
17 6 (0.16%) CISSP
18 5 (0.13%) OCP
18 5 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (4.62%) QA
2 41 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 41 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 29 (0.78%) GDPR
4 13 (0.35%) SEPA
5 12 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 11 (0.29%) SLA
7 8 (0.21%) PSD2
8 7 (0.19%) WCAG
9 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.13%) GRC
10 5 (0.13%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.027%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.027%) NCSC
12 1 (0.027%) NIST
12 1 (0.027%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.027%) Solvency II
System Software
1 773 (20.66%) Docker
2 80 (2.14%) HDFS
3 43 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.75%) Active Directory
6 20 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.24%) Firmware
8 6 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
9 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.027%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.027%) RACF
Systems Management
1 920 (24.59%) Kubernetes
2 343 (9.17%) Terraform
3 168 (4.49%) Ansible
4 121 (3.23%) Grafana
5 67 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 46 (1.23%) Puppet
7 43 (1.15%) Kibana
8 21 (0.56%) HAProxy
8 21 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (0.56%) Zipkin
9 17 (0.45%) Consul
10 11 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.27%) MIIS
12 8 (0.21%) Istio
12 8 (0.21%) Kiali
13 6 (0.16%) Argo
14 5 (0.13%) SCOM
15 4 (0.11%) Rancher
15 4 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.080%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 866 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 278 (7.43%) Oracle
3 227 (6.07%) Google
4 95 (2.54%) Databricks
5 90 (2.41%) Splunk
6 74 (1.98%) Cloudera
6 74 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 58 (1.55%) Facebook
8 57 (1.52%) Informatica
9 42 (1.12%) WSO2
10 37 (0.99%) IBM
10 37 (0.99%) Red Hat
11 36 (0.96%) Sparx
12 35 (0.94%) Salesforce
13 33 (0.88%) Apple
13 33 (0.88%) Sony
13 33 (0.88%) Yahoo!
14 26 (0.70%) YouTube
15 24 (0.64%) SaltStack
16 23 (0.61%) Sitecore